Listening to

Cedric (Oostkamp)

Saw the excellent Burnt Tapes while they were on tour, in a bizarre venue with even more bizarre crowd, but they smashed it like Thor smashes his hammer.

It’s recording time with The Affect Heuristic: expect something awesome! (As always when Sean’s around, there is a slight chance of nakedness.) Tour is coming up fast now; I can’t wait for 3 weeks around Europe with the guys in Wolfrik. Let’s meet up!

Listening to

The Affect Heuristic mainly – because I need to nail those songs. Wolfrik, because I want to nail those as well. I recently discovered Svalbard – what a sound!

Rob (Guildford)

Had a wonderful week on tour with Burnt Tapes and Tip of OlympVs last month. It was great vibes and top sets from the bands every night, thoroughly lovely.

This month I’ve been to Gloucester and Lincoln with Darko, first Gloucester secret show for us in 6 years! That makes you feel vintage.

We are back in Hastings for Arrowfest with a stacked line up of bands filling the weekend with massive tunes. That’s the 22nd to the 24th March.

Then, the weekend after, we travel to Bristol for Chris Fishlock’s birthday bash Fishstock. Another day filled with awesome music.

Listening to

Never Better the album, can’t get enough of it even more so after seeing the songs live for a week.

Sarah (Manchester)

Although it’s not taking place until April, I’m spending much of March gearing up for Manchester Punk Festival! I’m writing a couple of pieces for the MPF website, doing some interviews for their programme and trying to get my head around how great the line-up is this year. I’m also getting to visit Signature Brew on International Women’s Day to go and help brew the MPF signature beer!

If you’ve not done so already, be sure to grab a ticket. I reckon it’s the best festival in the UK – it’s become a bit of a punk rock mecca, with people travelling over from Brazil, South Africa and Japan. This year there’s plenty of Lockjaw bands on the bill: Wolfrik, Fair Do’s, The Affect Heuristic and a rare appearance from Almeida! Outside of Lockjaw, I’m stoked to catch Svalbard, Not On Tour, Samiam, Snuff, 88 Fingers Louie, Adrenalized and absolutely heaps of others.